A Summer Moocat
Tomato Ice Cream Pops
They’re nuts about tomatoes here in Taiwan — really big these days. Anything with tomatoes in it is big-time hyped as having those amazing tomato-related health benefits. Ever-present in each convenience store are tall, 600ml bottles of tomato juice, tomato-flavored milk, rice noodles “WITH REAL TOMATOES,” and yes, even tomato ice cream pops.
Tomatophenia!
All this, by way of saying, Welcome to the summer moocat.net! This issue features the largest number of essays the moocat has published in a single issue: six. Eight travelogs from the author’s 1996 SE Asian sojourn complete the story of the Vietnam leg of that trip. This issue also features a few samples of the work of two cartoonists (Stander and le Meaux). Please see the table below for a run-down of this issue’s contents.
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Lynn Landry Lynn Landry started to compose prose after an intervention by family and friends forced her to stop talking about it and do it. She lives in Oakland, California. |
The Fallopian Chronicles | The first installment of a not-entirely-young woman’s quest to get pregnant and the machinations that science imposes. |
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Suz Redfearn Sired in South Florida and seasoned in Louisiana, Suz Redfearn now dwells in the Center of the Free World (Wash. DC) with her husband Marty and two cats. An award-winning journalist, Redfearn sits home and freelances full time in her jammies. |
Childhood’s End and Psychic Friends |
A poignant account of a longstanding childhood ‘enemyhood’ and an endearing tale of a newly-wed gal’s first-ever slumber party and the psychic-for-hire who graced it, from the author’s award-winning Germbag column. |
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Moocat le Meaux Moocat le Meaux edits moocat.net. His work has been published and produced in several venues, including The Daily Reveille, The Culture Report, New Delta Review, and San Francisco Review. He is currently living and working in Taiwan. |
I Am Salad, Taiwanglish, Life in the Time of SARS, and Dave’s Corner |
Two humorous reports of cultural/linguistic disharmony, a sobering slice of life in a somewhat scary time and place, and samples of a single-panel cartoon strip run many years ago. |
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Melissa Stander Melissa Stander once cartooned in frustration at the ignorance regarding our shared existence and responsibility on Earth. She has since calmed down and now quietly influences young minds as a therapist in California. |
Hector | Two comic strips from the Denver-based cartoonists’ collective. |
I’m a little embarrassed to note that there are no new poems in this issue — just haven’t received the submissions necessary to treat you with the usual bevy of moocat-quality work. So please — if you know where good poetry can be found, tell your poet friends about moocat.net — send a link, or submit some good stuff yourself.
Enjoy!
— The Editor